Thank you for your testimony and for appearing here before us.
We heard in a previous committee meeting that high youth unemployment “translates into pessimism and resentment, lost opportunities to build skills and networks, dependence on other family members and economic hardship. It represents a failure to launch.”
In your opinion—and any one of you can answer this question, or all of you, if we have time—what specific skills or work habits are most at risk of being lost when young people face extended periods of unemployment during their careers?